Commando 43-47025
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-5-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47025
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 96
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK73
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
October 1944
43-47025 - USAAF (USA)
23 October 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
October 1944 to January 1947
39598 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)
26 October 1944
Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA. [date discrepancy]
Sent to the Lockheed Modification Center at Dallas Love Field, TX.
2 November 1944
Delivered from the Lockheed Modification Center at Dallas Love Field, TX.
November 1944
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.
June 1946
Assigned to VMR-253 based at MCAS Miramar, CA.
October 1946
Assigned to MAG-25 Service Squadron (Servron-25).
December 1946
Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.
31 January 1947
Struck off charge as surplus.
Right: shiny 39598 seen at MCAS Miramar, CA on 24 May 1946.
Photo credit: Bill Larkins / Wikimedia Commons
